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CELEBRITY CROSSWORD
SUDOKU
Fill in the puzzle grid so that every row, every column, and every
3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
Across
1. Bring up the rear
4. Oscar nomination oversight, e.g.
8. Moisturizer additive
12. Ms. Lupino
13. Chace Crawford on "Gossip Girl"
14. "Doctor Zhivago" director David
15. Deface
16. Roundish
17. Actor Colin of "Under the Dome"
18. Shown, she's Leslie Knope on 40-
Across: 2 wds.
21. Meryl Streep's "__ Complicated"
22. Big Nielsen week
26. Comedian/actor Dave
29. Mr. Albert
30. "Deep Space Nine" shapeshifter
31. Jacqueline Kennedy, __ Bouvier
32. Dunn and Ephron
35. ABC's "__ Tank"
37. Native American groups
39. Actor Nicholas of "The X-Files"
40. "Parks and __"
45. Sizable sandwich
48. St. Louis team
49. "Da __ G Show"
50. Classiﬁed military base, "__ 51"
51. "Buck" ending
52. Tonic's partner
53. "__ Poets Society"
54. Mr. Jillette
55. 2012 ﬁlm, "Man __ __ Ledge"
Down
1. Bean town?
2. Actor Scott of 40-Across
3. Mr. Sinise
4. Snobbish
5. Cathedral sections
6. D-Day beach
7. School signals
8. Michael Caine's "Batman" role
9. Actor McKern
10. Dinghy propeller
11. Emma Thompson ﬁlm, "Howards __"
19. Jason Biggs movie, "American __"
20. Member of the ﬂock
23. Dame __ Everage
24. Docking spot
25. Search for
26. Helvetica or Arial, e.g.
27. Stench
28. Ms. Greiner of 35-Across
33. Overseas
34. "Understand?"
35. Kind of ticket
36. Stetson, e.g.
38. Get rid of
39. Liz __ of "30 Rock"
41. Hard to ﬁnd
42. Othello's betrayer
43. Actor/director Ken
44. Actress Dobrev
45. Owned
46. Palindrome, "Able was I __ ..."
47. "The Crying Game" star Stephen
WORD QUIZZARD
In the grid below, twenty answers can be found that ﬁt the
category for today. Circle each answer that you ﬁnd and list
it in the space provided at the right of the grid. Answers can
be foundin all directions - forwards, backwards, horizontally,
vertically and diagonally. An example is given to get you
started. Can you ﬁnd the twenty answers in this puzzle?
Real-Life Figures as TV Characters
1. This AMC series about an Albuquerque
chemistry teacher turned meth cook has a
real-life counterpart in Alabama with the
same name.
2. This HBO crime drama merely changed
the surname of the Atlantic City political
boss on which the lead character is based,
Enoch "Nucky" Johnson.
3. This HBO Western drama about the titu-
lar gold camp featured appearances by
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Wyatt
Earp.
4. "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David mod-
eled and named this character after one
of his real-life neighbors, who in turn gave
guided "Seinfeld" tours in New York City.
5. This ABC political thriller series follows
a former White House Communications
Director who has started her own crisis
management ﬁrm, a character drawn from
H.W. Bush Administration press aide Judy
Smith.
Answers
1. "Breaking Bad"
2. "Boardwalk Empire"
3. "Deadwood"
4. Kramer
5. "Scandal"
TRIVIA CHAIN
- On April 8, 563 B.C., Buddhists cel-
ebrate the commemoration of the birth
of Gautama Buddha, the founder of
Buddhism. Gautama Buddha was born
as Prince Siddhartha, son of the king of
the Sakya kingdom, located on the bor-
ders of present-day Nepal and India.
- On April 7, 1776, Navy Capt. John Bar-
ry, commander of the American warship
Lexington, makes the ﬁrst American na-
val capture of a British vessel when he
takes command of the British warship
HMS Edward oﬀ the coast of Virginia.
- On April 12, 1914, the Mark Strand
Theater opens to the public in New
York City. The Strand was the ﬁrst of the
"dream palaces." It seated 3,000 people
and boasted a second-ﬂoor balcony.
- On April 9, 1939, Easter Sunday, more
than 75,000 people come to the Lin-
coln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to
hear black contralto Marian Anderson
give a free concert. Anderson had been
scheduled to sing at Washington's Con-
stitution Hall, but the Daughters of the
American Revolution denied her the
right to perform because of her race.
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